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3rd Global Conference
Heavy Fundametalisms:
Can I Play with Madness? Metal, Dissonance,
Madness and Alienation

Monday 8th November ? Wednesday 10th November 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
From the outset of the forging Heavy Metal's music
and culture, madness has been an ever present
theme. From Black Sabbath's Paranoid through Iron
Maiden's Can I Play with Madness? to the more
recent Psychosocial chant from Slipknot, madness
and mental illness are just of the few well known
examples has featured in the Metal mainstream. It
is a fascination with madness that further belches
out on to the surface from
the metal underground. Madness is not confined to
the lyrical and musical expressions of the
artists, but can be used to describe features
of the entire metal scene in its exuberant
expression of alienation, by individuals through
to the chaotic theatre of the pit.

This third conference in the series Heavy
Fundametalisms invites submissions on the theme of
heavy Metal, madness, dissonance and
alienation. Under this heading, applicants are
encouraged to consider subjects that spring forth
but are not restricted to:

~ Metal, Madness and the creative mind
~The troubled soul: metal in the poetic tradition
~ Metal and the asylum
~ Metal Monstrosity
~ Mental health, metal as therapy, metal in therapy
~ Gendered conceptions of madness in metal
~ Metal and mental illness
~ Metal and hysteria
~ Chaos vs order
~ Madness and Alienation
~ Metal ? alienation vs inclusion/belonging
~ Metal and dissonance-musical and social/cultural
~ Metal and aggression
~ Doom, gloom and misery
~ Metal, sin and redemption
~ Suicide, death
~ Self Harm, pain, body art and madness
~ Robert Walser's critical madness
~ The genealogy of misery in Metal

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
28th May 2010. If your paper is accepted
for presentation at the conference, an 8 page
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 24th
September 2010.

300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs
Niall Scott
The International School for Communities Rights
and Inclusion
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]

Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Ethos Hub series of
ongoing research and publications projects
conferences, run within the Critical Issues domain
which aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore
innovative and challenging routes of
intellectual and academic exploration.

All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume, or for
the launch edition of a new interdisciplinary
journal examining intersections of music and
politics and published by the Inter-Disciplinary
Press.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/music-metal-politics/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/music-metal-politics/call-for-papers/